Greatbatch Ltd.

Jeff Fleigle

Robert A Stevenson

Warren S Dabney

Robert Shawn Johnson

Christopher Michael Williams

Scott Brainard

Kishore Kumar Kondabatni

Hugh D Hestad

Holly Noelle Moschiano

Christopher Mauhar

Krishna Vedula

Hitesh Mehta

Ryan Thomas Bauer

Qingshan Ye

Rommy U Huleis

Christine A Frysz

Richard L Brendel

Henry R Halperin

Barry C Muffoletto

Albert Clark Lardo

Buehl E Truex

Holly Noell Moschiano

In various examples, a method of conductor management within a medical device includes providing a flexible substrate. The flexible substrate includes at least one routing feature. A hole is cut in the at least one routing feature with a cutting device. A conductor is passed through the hole in the at least one routing feature. The routing feature acts to maintain and manage positioning of the conductor within the medical device. The medical device, in some examples, includes a lead, with the conductor connected to an electrode of the lead after being routed through the routing feature.

Method of conductor management within a medical device

In various examples, a component for a medical device is described. The component includes a conductor wire including a connection portion. An electrode is formed from a conductive tube. The conductive tube is compressed at least partially around the connection portion of the conductor wire to at least partially surround and couple to the connection portion.

Electrode connection and method therefor

An energy management system facilitates the transfer of high frequency energy coupled into an implanted abandoned lead at a selected RF frequency or frequency band, to an energy dissipating surface. This is accomplished by conductively coupling the implanted abandoned lead to the energy dissipating surface of an abandoned lead cap through an energy diversion circuit including one or more passive electronic network components whose impedance characteristics are at least partially tuned to the implanted abandoned lead's impedance characteristics.

Methodology and apparatus to terminate abandoned active implantable medical device leads

One or more inductors and one or more capacitors are physically disposed relative to one another in series and are electrically connected to one another in parallel to form a bandstop filter. Chip inductors and chip capacitors having spaced apart conductive terminals are physically arranged in end-to-end abutting relation to minimize electrical potential between adjacent conductive terminals. The bandstop filter may be hermetically sealed within a biocompatible container for use with an implantable lead or electrode of a medical device. The values of the inductors and the capacitors are selected such that the bandstop filter is resonant at one or more selected frequencies, such as an MRI pulsed frequency.

Capacitor and inductor elements physically disposed in series whose lumped parameters are electrically connected in parallel to form a bandstop filter

System for terminating abandoned implanted leads to minimize heating in high power electromagnetic field environments

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Jeff Fleigle